Samsung NP300E5X-A0BIN comes clad in a titan silver poly carbonate chassis. To make the laptop available for budget price, metals are not used.
Keyboard keys are spacious and number-pad is available. Arrow keys are good and there is no challenge while playing games. I, personally, have played games like Age of Empire 3, Total Overdose which worked without any lag. Keyboard shortcuts such as volume up, volume down, touch pad disable, Wi-Fi, brightness adjustment were available under function keys. There is no pause key, without it you can’t resume Age of Empire 3 game. There is no backbit for keyboard; however you will get notification in your display while you turn on/off caps lock and number lock. Touch pad is average; you need to put some extra pressure to do click. There is synaptic driver for touch pad using which gesture feature can be enabled.
For everyday use I haven’t faced any issue since last 5 months. Performance is crisp as it has 2 GB RAM. I installed Eclipse IDE and tried running Android emulator and it takes 1 minute to launch. You can reduced this lag by additional 2GB RAM. After installing VMware there were some lags and I recovered it by stopping some services. As I mentioned before that games work fine. If the game requires dedicated graphics or video card you can’t run. Below is my Windows Experience Index, where 1.0 is the lowest and 7.9 is the highest score.